“We should not be afraid to talk. And we should not cherry-pick Confederate monuments to tear down so that we may pat ourselves on the back and say, ‘Yay, I just ended white supremacy.'”
Letter: Rededicate the Vance Monument
“The monument is directly on the site of the old courthouse where the slave auctions were held. It is the exact location where blacks were sold into bondage. It has always been apparent to me, and yet I have never heard one person suggest it, that the monument be rededicated to them.”
Lawful house breakfast
Asheville, N
Big bad hang-over cure
Asheville, NC
Letter: Health care revamp betrays heartlessness, cowardice
“Both Republican congressmen from Western North Carolina, Mark Meadows and Patrick McHenry, are determined to make health care more expensive or even nonexistent for millions of Americans, and both seem utterly unconcerned with the repercussions on those with pre-existing conditions.”
Letter: Stop glorifying Confederate monuments
“There is a difference between memory and celebration, and most Confederate monuments are less about memory and more about the celebration of white supremacist control.”
A R.A.D. way to go
Asheville, NC
“… and the ink’s red glare…”
Asheville, NC
The long goodbye: Home burial can bring comfort
“In a society where death is largely relegated to hospitals, impersonal mortuaries and mass cemeteries, home burial has fallen by the wayside. Yet just a generation or two ago, death was recognized as a natural part of life.”
Letter: Local resources offered on food resiliency
“I’d like to share some local resources that make up a large part of the nonprofit contribution to our local food system in Western North Carolina.”
Letter: Fix needed for New Leicester Highway intersection
“The idea of setting up a ‘trap’ to generate revenue by dinging the citizens of Buncombe is not in keeping with what our county is about. This practice creates a major traffic hazard far beyond a vehicle entering the expressed turn lane ‘too early.'”
The best displayed plans
Blue Ridge Honor Flight brings veterans home: The Gospel According to Jerry
“Grown men don’t cry, but it was hard to keep a dry eye as we walked through these profoundly evocative memorials, knowing the gut-wrenching agony of the families of all these thousands of men and women who, had they survived, might have been on the bus with us this very day.”
Letter: Stand up for freedom at home and abroad
“Our generation now finds itself at a vaguely familiar crossroads: in one direction, tyranny, the other, freedom. “
Brady Bunch Tower?
Asheville, NC
Letter: The trees are moving — why can’t we?
“The Citizens Climate Lobby, which I only recently discovered, believes there is common ground to be found between progressives and conservatives on climate, and that finding it begins with listening to those we generally dismiss and disparage and creating programs that integrate the values and concerns of all sides.”
Busker see, büsker dü
Asheville, NC
Community rights movement promotes local sovereignty
“People need to see the power they really have, especially the power to prevent Duke Energy from making all the decisions,” says Asheville Community Rights co-founder Kat Houghton. “Corporations should not have more rights than people. That is not a democracy.”
Letter: Why aren’t local media covering possible cuts to vets’ benefits?
“I have to ask why, if local media support American veterans, these main sources of local info are not reporting on the battle going on in Washington over the VA and the future of all vets who served honorably?”
Letter: Please share bulletin board space
“This is a heartfelt request for a more collaborative spirit that clearly sees we have to share the limited bulletin board space available to us.”
Letter: Votes are for favorites, not best
“If we were to vote on our favorite color, you would announce which color is ‘best.'”